[28] The cranes of Canada—so often alluded to by the French explorers as "Grues"—are of two species, Grus canadensis, with its plumage of a purple-grey, and Grus americanus, which is pure white (see p. [139]).
[29] Lakes Ontario and Huron were probably first actually reached by Father Le Caron, a Recollett missionary who came out with Champlain in 1615 (see p. [90]), and by Étienne Brulé, Champlain's interpreter.
[30] They were almost completely exterminated by the Iroquois confederacy between thirty and forty years after Champlain's visit.